Overview
- Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis CERN, Geneva
- Awarded the CERN ALICE thesis award 2019
- Presents a novel design of a front-end ASIC for high energy physics experiments
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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About this book
To cope with the new running conditions in the ALICE experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, a new integrated circuit named SAMPA has been created that can process 32 analogue channels, convert them to digital, perform filtering and compression, and transmit the data on high speed links to the data acquisition system.
The main purpose of this work is to specify, design, test and verify the digital signal processing part of the SAMPA device to accommodate the requirements of the detectors involved. Innovative solutions have been employed to reduce the bandwidth required by the detectors, as well as adaptations to ease data handling later in the processing chain.
The new SAMPA device was built to replace two existing circuits, in addition to reducing the current consumption, and doubling the amount of processing channels. About 50000 of the devices will be installed in the Time Projection Chamber and Muon Chamber detectors in the ALICE experiment.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Digital Signal Processor for Particle Detectors
Book Subtitle: Design, Verification and Testing
Authors: Arild Velure
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71559-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71558-8Published: 13 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-71561-8Published: 14 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-71559-5Published: 12 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 157
Number of Illustrations: 27 b/w illustrations, 30 illustrations in colour
Topics: Particle and Nuclear Physics, Signal, Image and Speech Processing, Statistics, general, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics